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Peter Paul Rubens
Flemish Baroque Era Painter, 1577-1640
Peter Paul Rubens (June 28, 1577 ?C May 30, 1640) was a prolific seventeenth-century Flemish Baroque painter, and a proponent of an exuberant Baroque style that emphasized movement, color, and sensuality. He is well-known for his Counter-Reformation altarpieces, portraits, landscapes, and history paintings of mythological and allegorical subjects.
In addition to running a large studio in Antwerp which produced paintings popular with nobility and art collectors throughout Europe, Rubens was a classically-educated humanist scholar, art collector, and diplomat who was knighted by both Philip IV, king of Spain, and Charles I, king of England.
Rubens was a prolific artist. His commissioned works were mostly religious subjects, "history" paintings, which included mythological subjects, and hunt scenes. He painted portraits, especially of friends, and self-portraits, and in later life painted several landscapes. Rubens designed tapestries and prints, as well as his own house. He also oversaw the ephemeral decorations of the Joyous Entry into Antwerp by the Cardinal-Infante Ferdinand in 1635.
His drawings are mostly extremely forceful but not detailed; he also made great use of oil sketches as preparatory studies. He was one of the last major artists to make consistent use of wooden panels as a support medium, even for very large works, but he used canvas as well, especially when the work needed to be sent a long distance. For altarpieces he sometimes painted on slate to reduce reflection problems.
His fondness of painting full-figured women gave rise to the terms 'Rubensian' or 'Rubenesque' for plus-sized women. The term 'Rubensiaans' is also commonly used in Dutch to denote such women.
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The Four Philosophers
mk67
Oil on panel
64 9/16x5411/16in
Pitti,Palatine Gallery
Painting ID:: 30011
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The_Four_Philosophers
mk67
Oil on panel
64 9/16x5411/16in
Pitti,Palatine Gallery
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Christ Risen
mk67
Oil on canvas
74x61in
Pitti,Palatine Gallery
Painting ID:: 30012
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Christ_Risen
mk67
Oil on canvas
74x61in
Pitti,Palatine Gallery
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Portrait of Isabella Brant
mk67
Oil on panel
33 7/8x28 3/8in
Uffizi,Gallery
Painting ID:: 30013
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Portrait_of_Isabella_Brant
mk67
Oil on panel
33 7/8x28 3/8in
Uffizi,Gallery
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Henry IV at the Battle of Ivry
mk67
Oil on canvas
44 1/2x272 13/16in
Uffizi,Gallery
Painting ID:: 30014
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Henry_IV_at_the_Battle_of_Ivry
mk67
Oil on canvas
44 1/2x272 13/16in
Uffizi,Gallery
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Judith with the Head of Holofernes
mk67
Oil on canvas
44 1/2x35in
Uffizi,Gallery
Painting ID:: 30015
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Judith_with_the_Head_of_Holofernes
mk67
Oil on canvas
44 1/2x35in
Uffizi,Gallery
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Peter_Paul_Rubens
Flemish Baroque Era Painter, 1577-1640
Peter Paul Rubens (June 28, 1577 ?C May 30, 1640) was a prolific seventeenth-century Flemish Baroque painter, and a proponent of an exuberant Baroque style that emphasized movement, color, and sensuality. He is well-known for his Counter-Reformation altarpieces, portraits, landscapes, and history paintings of mythological and allegorical subjects.
In addition to running a large studio in Antwerp which produced paintings popular with nobility and art collectors throughout Europe, Rubens was a classically-educated humanist scholar, art collector, and diplomat who was knighted by both Philip IV, king of Spain, and Charles I, king of England.
Rubens was a prolific artist. His commissioned works were mostly religious subjects, "history" paintings, which included mythological subjects, and hunt scenes. He painted portraits, especially of friends, and self-portraits, and in later life painted several landscapes. Rubens designed tapestries and prints, as well as his own house. He also oversaw the ephemeral decorations of the Joyous Entry into Antwerp by the Cardinal-Infante Ferdinand in 1635.
His drawings are mostly extremely forceful but not detailed; he also made great use of oil sketches as preparatory studies. He was one of the last major artists to make consistent use of wooden panels as a support medium, even for very large works, but he used canvas as well, especially when the work needed to be sent a long distance. For altarpieces he sometimes painted on slate to reduce reflection problems.
His fondness of painting full-figured women gave rise to the terms 'Rubensian' or 'Rubenesque' for plus-sized women. The term 'Rubensiaans' is also commonly used in Dutch to denote such women.
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